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Santa Claus in Baghdad (2008)
Directed by Raouf Zaki
· 39m
In impoverished Baghdad under Saddam's dictatorship, 16-year-old Amal hopes to regain her social status at school by volunteering to find a book as a class gift for the departing literature teacher. Meanwhile, her emotionally fragile little brother becomes obsessed with the notion that a visiting uncle from America--whom he confuses with Santa Claus--will bring him toys. Ashamed never to have been able to give his son a toy, the child's father sells some more prized family possessions and buys a model car for him.
Cast
T
Tamara Dhia
Amal
Nora Armani
Amal's Mother
Demosthenes Chrysan
Amal's Father
May Calamawy
Hala (as May El Calamawy)
J
John Rahal Sarrouf
Mr. Kareem
M
Miriam Habib
Student 1
A
Alexandra Nader
Student 2
A
Ameena Sais
Rafeeka
S
Sara Hassan
Deena
D
Dody Eid
Bilal
D
David Zaki
Sami
M
Marie-Thérèse Abou-Daoud
Bilal's Teacher
Crew
- Director
- Raouf Zaki
- Writer
- Raouf Zaki, Elsa Marston
- Editor
- Raouf Zaki
Details
- Release date
- 2008-08-09
- Runtime
- 39m
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, English